Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Rape and sexual violence are at the forefront of political debate in contemporary Spain. The Sexual Liberty Law,1 first tabled in March 2020, was drafted by the Ministry of Equality under a Socialist-Unidas Podemos coalition in response to backlash against Spain's rape laws, with feminists throughout the country galvanized by the notorious "la Manada" ("wolf pack") gang rape case in 2017.2 Mass protests attracted international attention and, mirroring the global #MeToo movement, a Spanish-centric trend #Cuéntalo arose, which is a metonym that connotes a sense of female collectivity by encouraging (almost exclusively) female survivors to come forward about experiences of sexual abuse. Under existing legislation, a ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-15T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: "These narratives are the only inheritances that poor people can hand down to their offsprings."In 2008, the decolonization of trauma theory in the 21st century was recognized by a special issue of Studies in the Novel, with essays that urge not only a turning-away from a Eurocentric model but also the recognition that trauma is not necessarily individual and event-based, as classical trauma theory would have it.1 While the definition of trauma had already been expanded to study the experiences of Holocaust survivors and their descendants, new scholarship has focused on a much more comprehensive form of trauma, including that of the long history of colonization and enslavement, and its lingering effects in the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-15T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In Black Skin, White Masks (1952), his harrowing account of the role played by racism in constituting a colonial subject's self-consciousness, Frantz Fanon declares that a colonized subject "who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language."2 Fanon's awareness of the violence and volition entailed in the use of language in colonial contexts reverberates well beyond its origin in colonial Martinique. Fanon proposes that "every colonized people … every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality" has their language called into question by virtue of their political oppression. The upshot of this ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-15T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Charlotte Brontë's two major autofictions have intrigued readers for their personal revelations. The Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge is portrayed unflatteringly in Jane Eyre, and her unrequited love for her Belgian teacher, M. Constantin, surfaces in Villette as the brittle love story of Lucy Snowe and M. Paul Emmanuel. In these autobiographical works Brontë translates her own traumatic experiences into significant narrative arcs, and the direct apostrophes to the reader are designed to heighten the empathic relationship with her imagined readership. The reader then enters into what Garrett Stewart calls an "intersubjective textual engagement" that locks the narrator and the attentive reader in a hermetic ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-15T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: In recent years, the theory on traumatic impacts of climate change has spread to the humanities, where literary and cultural scholars have been exploring the effects of global warming's impact on narratology. In this article, I will discuss what constitutes a climate trauma narrative. I will critically engage with the dominant notion, as supported by E. Ann Kaplan, that defines climate trauma as being pre-traumatic.1 I will argue that the focus on the future-oriented and individual experience of climate change reinforces Western-humanist, white supremacist perspectives of separation and neocolonial ignorance of experiences that differ from those of the Eurocentric West. In that context, I will analyze two different ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-15T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Edited by Laura Lazzari and Nathalie Ségeral, this volume brings together a variety of critical voices to investigate the intersection of motherhood and trauma in different kinds of artistic productions. The approach is interdisciplinary and transnational, privileging a sociopolitical and analytical—rather than strictly theoretical—focus on the texts. In the introduction, the editors acknowledge the cultural and political influence of creative narratives in shaping and representing identities and experiences. Therefore, in light also of current worldwide debates about reproductive technologies and surrogacy that challenge traditional notions of motherhood, the essays consider representations of nontraditional ... Read More PubDate: 2023-10-15T00:00:00-05:00
Subscription journal
